Many Job Applicants Given Positions, Plimpton Reports---$288,085 Earned

Students in the University earned $206,807 during the past year in term-time and summer jobs obtained through the University Student Employment Office, as 1215 boosted the 1938 payroll $7649 over that of 1937, Associate Dean George F. Plimpton announced yesterday in his annual report.

The number of students employed increased by 67 over the previous year. Term time earnings reached the highest point since 1932-33, while summer earnings continued downward for the second successive year.

The total reported earnings of Harvard students during the year was $288,085, as compared to $272,088 the previous year. The work obtained by students through the Student Employment Office included jobs under the Temporary Student Employment Plan, financed by the University, and wages from Harvard organizations such as the CRIMSON, Phillips Brooks House and the Chapel Choir.

Thirty-five per cent of the undergraduates in Harvard College applied for work at the Employment Office during the year, and fourteen per cent of the graduate students. Over eighty per cent of the term-time applicants were placed in jobs, but only thirty-two per cent of the summer applicants. Term-time earnings through the Employment Office were $107,950, compared to $98,151 the year before, while summer earnings decreased to $98,857 from $101,007 the year before.

Among the many types of term-time jobs, the largest number of individual placements, 738, went to typists, with chore workers, 241, second. These two groups together earned $4,878, while the largest earnings $30,492, went to 239 waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor-companions, $34,429 for 85 jobs, and camp councilors, $23,860 for 112 jobs. The University's summer guiding service, which provided without charge formal tours for nearly 7,500 visitors, produced $1,617 in earnings for student guides.